Sunday, April 23, 2017

PITCH בץ

ROOTS: PITCH is
said to derive from Middle English pich
and Latin pix or picis (pitch). PITCH is
the black, sticky substance formed in the distillation of coal, tar, etc.

1.בץBoaTS is
mud or mire (Jeremiah38:22);בצהBeeTSaH is a marsh or swamp (Job40:21).

This muckyב-צBet-Tsadi stuff is as unstable asבצקBaTSeQ
(dough, PASTE). The built-in opposite, צ-בTsadi-Bet stability
is seen at “STUBBORN.”

2. The second, slightly stickier way to PITCH involves
another bilabial-dental
word,זפתZePHeT, pitch .An M231 metathesis is needed to produce P-T-S, but
at least the meaning is exact.The word
is in Syriac, Ethiopian and Arabic. There is alsoa verb of coating with PITCH or tar. [Mark Feffer]

A sinking feeling
that בוץ BOATS (the mire of
a QUAGMIRE)may be abilabial-dental comes from the dental-bilabial of טבעDTaBH[A]h (sunk,
immersed)-- see “DIVE.”Of
course צ Tsadi TS, can be both a fricative or a dental.

בצעBaTS[A]h, shallow pond is
Post-Biblical-Hebrew (PBH).

BRANCHES:BITUMEN originally meant mineral PITCH;BITUMINOUS coal yields PITCH or tar
when it burns. In dry season many a pondis largely a muddy בצה BeeTSaH(marsh).A nasalizedבץBoaTS makes a fine
“pond”
word. See “PUDDLE.”POND has been given the IE "root" bend (protruding
point).

See "BISON" and
"PITA" for similar development.

In Algonquian place names, pos or poss means
“muddy.”

In the Amazon one secures a canoe by burying the bottom
in the muddy river bank; in the Araona language (Amerind) zibi , aצ-בTsadi-Bet “stability” word, is to safely moor or ground a canoe (in בץBoaTS , mud ).

Spanish zopisa (tar, pitch) is only aS-B from זפתZePHe)S(,
pitch, tar, so it is likely a borrowing from Arabic. The Slavic
below offers paths to BASIN and POND: